In an effort to prepare myself for the vocab section of the GRE I’m going to begin posting a word-of-the-day for the next several weeks. The words I’ll post first are words I encountered and did not know while reading Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men Through American History.
Today’s word is: augur. Augur is most commonly used as a verb, in which form it has two meanings: (1) to indicate by signs, and (2) to predict from an omen. As a noun, augur describes a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy in Ancient Rome. Closely related is the word augury which is a noun that describes an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
My score on the GRE will augur my grad school fate.
This morning I spent some time wandering around campus taking care of new-semester business. Now I’m all set and ready to begin classes on Friday. Yay!
